Given the current shortage on coins is anyone getting extra at the bank and stashing them?

(07-22-2020, 03:11 PM)wessonoil Wrote: Given the current shortage on coins is anyone getting extra at the bank and stashing them?

Shortage on coins? Where? And why stash them?

I apologize, these questions must seem really dumb. But they are sincere.

(07-22-2020, 03:26 PM)Finspiracy Wrote:

(07-22-2020, 03:11 PM)wessonoil Wrote: Given the current shortage on coins is anyone getting extra at the bank and stashing them?

Shortage on coins? Where? And why stash them?

I apologize, these questions must seem really dumb. But they are sincere.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/202...207326f0a3

I feel like it's always a good idea to stash things that are in short supply.

Damn! I was still doing the toilet paper!

But no, have a couple big change jars, our local banks are paying interest on coin exchanges to get people to turn in their collections.

(07-22-2020, 03:43 PM)DuckforcoveR Wrote: Damn! I was still doing the toilet paper!

But no, have a couple big change jars, our local banks are paying interest on coin exchanges to get people to turn in their collections.

That should tell you something then.

Our banks won't give large change orders to anyone but businesses. Luckily I have one.

I only save the older coins I come across, been doing that for many years. I have several bags of just old coins, hoping some of them might be worth something someday.

As for saving my current coins, I have a jar I put all my coins in after shopping. I turn that into cash before Christmas to help buy gifts. You'd be surprised how much can be saved in a year's time.  Of course, I have to add more money, but it certainly puts a dent in the cost.

(07-22-2020, 03:11 PM)wessonoil Wrote: Given the current shortage on coins is anyone getting extra at the bank and stashing them?

OMG! 
We just deposited $14.67 in change yesterday.
Now I know why the cashier was smiling like the Cat that had just swallowed the Canary. 

Haven't used a coin in two years - guess I'll be stashing them in the shelter, right behind the toilet paper and guns.

Yeah, I reckon you could call it a "stash". I only spend green money at the store, and the change just falls into my pocket. When I was working, up until last September, all that change found it's way into the snack machines at work, but since I've not been working, no snack machines, so it just sits in my pocket.

And collects there.

I reckon I've got several pounds of change in my pocket now, just waiting on a place to be that isn't my pocket. It's been collecting for 11 months now, and nowhere to go.

Yup, I reckon you could call that a "stash".

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(07-22-2020, 03:11 PM)wessonoil Wrote: Given the current shortage on coins is anyone getting extra at the bank and stashing them?

I admit ............its me and my wife. I have a five gallon jar that is 1/2 full and the wife has about another 2 gallons of coins. But you cant have them. We are coin hoarders and we dont need an intervention. 

Im a rookie.

Damn it

That boating accident 
A lot of stuff sank that day
We were out in our ocean front property  here in Arizona 

First the guns
Then my dd-214
Now my coins

I am disabled
What else was on my boat